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“What Did You See?”
Nu Tribes Experiment #3 - The End of the Beginning Celebration
SATURDAY, MAY 26, 2001
6PM -12 MIDNIGHT
Final stage of a two-stage work-in-progress by local emerging artists associated with Nu Tribes Art Collective and Arts411. This two-month collaborative multi-media exploration of racial symbology, media conveyance, cultural identity, and current event visual processing, closes with a night of art, discussion, music and momentum.
CLOSING:
Saturday, May 26, 2001 at the Independent Media Center
1415 3rd Avenue, Seattle, WA
Show runs until May 27th
Hours M, W, F, SA 12-3 PM, T, TH 5-8PM
Catering:
MudBug’s at the Bayou
Artists:
Roger Mitchell, Kip Miller, Elizabeth Johnson, Roderick Caldwell, Mecca, Jeff Joseph, Cyreeta Mitchell, and Eddie Hill.
Donations:
$5 Suggested - This is a fundraiser, you can donate capital, materials, or time to help expand youth and teen opportunity, and support emerging artists of color. Proceeds used for the Arts411 educational schedule, youth and teen arts programs, and operational expenses.
Arts411 is a not-for-profit organization, for information on tax verification and confirmation of fiscal agent, contact sesmith@cdforum.org These works examine “Post-Traumatic Slave Disorder,” a mental process and social infection in response to 100 years of racial confusion, social dysfunction, and habitual scape goating by blacks and whites alike. The greatest dilemma of the 20th Century, as stated by W.E.B. DuBois in 1900, was going to be the issue of race. 2001 - What was the answer? Did we miss the announcement? It was important for voices in media and arts to provide an image for the thoughts of those who look like us and those who do not. What do you do when you no longer agree with the definitions and perceptions of your brothers as well as your keepers? What are the questions of the 21st Century? Are we all on the same page about the answers of the 20th Century? For more information: Lauren Holloway, Independent Media Center (206) 262-0721
Nu Tribes Art Collective, Arts411, and Independent Media Center present “What Did You See?”“ the closing night for this evolving work-in-progress installation using mixed-media, sculpture, video, and sound to examine the end-products of 100 years of American Race Agenda. A collaborative work by members of the Nu Tribes Art Collective, IMC, and Arts411 focusing on the unresolved issues around race, culture, and social perception of the “other” through media and symbology.
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